Hub-attaching device.



No. 646,245. Patented Mar. 27 I900. J. A. WEITZEL.& U. G. SMITH.

HUB ATTAGHING DEVICE.

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H UB-VATTACH'ING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 646,245, dated March 27, 1900.

Application filed Januar 3.1900. Serial No. 256. woman.)

To all whom it may concern:

.. Be it known that we, JOHN A. WEITZEL and ULYSSES G. SMITH, citizens of the United States,and residents of Danville,in the county of Montour and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Hub-Attachin g which end we employ'a collar with a locking. device 'to hold it on the spindle and a peculiarly-constructed pawl-and-ratchet devicearranged to control said locking device.

, This specification is the disclosure of several forms of the invention, while the claims define the actual scope thereof.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part'ot' this specification,

in which similar'characters of reference-indicatecorresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a ,longitudinalsectional View of' the inventionf Fig. 2 isa section onthe line 2 2 of Fig. 1 Fig. 3 is asection on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a section on the line 4 4 of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is an inner-face view of the head of the locking device,showing the pawl thereon. Fig. 6 is a section on the line 6 6 of Fig. 5. Fig. 7 is a sectional perspective view of a slightly-modified arrangement, and Fig.

8 is a similar view of a further modification.

Referring to Figs. 1 to 6, the journal 9 has a hub-holding collarlO held to the end thereof by means of a locking-dog 11, working in 'a cavity 12 in the journal and carriedon a spindle 14, which works in abushing 15 on the collar 10, and this bushing maybe provided with a feather 15, engaged in the journal, as shown, which construction is well known in the art. The movement of the dog 11 to the position shown in Figs. 1 and 2 serves to hold the collar 10 rigidly in place, and for securing this dog 11 we provide a head comprising a square outer portion 16 and a circular base 17. This head is secured ing ratcheted, as shown.

portion 16 of the head of the device is formed with a cavity 16 therein, which opens at one of the side walls of the said square portion 16 and which runs inward into communication with a cavity 17, formed in the base 17 of the head. A pawl 20 is mounted in the cavities 16 and'17 andhas an extension 20 project-- ing out of the cavity 16 beyond one of the sides of the square portion 16,'so that a wrench placedon said square portion will engage with the extension 20 and throw the pawl 20 inward toward the center of the head. The pawl 20. has a pin 21 attached thereto and-located in the cavity17, and this pin 21 holds asprin g 22, which also is situated within the cavity 17 The spring 22, being an expansive spring,

pushes thev pawl 20 outwardv and causes it normally to engage with the 'ratcheted inner wall of the flange 18,'as shown best in Fig. 4.

It will be seen, therefore, that the engagementof thepawl 20 with theratcheted flange 18 will hold the head of the spindle 14 incapable of movement in one direction and that jthis engagement of the pawl with the ratcheted flange may be broken by pushing in the- NVithin the spin-f extension 20 of the pawl.

dle'9 and'at one side of the cavity 12 thereof .an abutment 23 is formed, against which the dog 11 is adapted to hear when in locked p0 sition and by which further movement of the dog 11 in the direction of the arrow shown in Fig. 2 is prevented. The pawl 20 is set so as to permit the movement of the dog 11 in the direction of the said arrow and so as to pre= vent movement of the dog reversely. thereto,

except when the pawl is disengaged from the ratchetedflange 18. It will be seen, therefore, that the dog 11 may be thrown freely to locked position, (which is that shown in Fig. 2,) during which movement the pawl 20 will move outwardly over the teeth on the flange 18; but the return movemenoof the dog will not be permitteduntil the pawl is thrown to disengage the ratchet. One of the special advantages of our device is that when a wrench is applied to the square portion 16 of the head to turn the head and return the dog 11 from the position shown in Fig. 2 the engagement of the wrench with the head will be accompanied by an engagement of the wrench with the part 20 of the pawl, so as to automatic ally release the pawl. I

In Figs. 7 and S we have shown a construction by means of which the parts 11, 14, and may be dispensed with. In Fig. 7 the collar 10 is formed with scores or grooves 23 in its inner face, which serve to engage with the inner end of the journal to prevent the collar fromturning, and the head, comprising the base 17 and squared outer portion 16, as previously described, has a spindle 14 secured fast therein, such spindle extending through the collar and being screw-threaded, so that it may be screwed into the journal, thus clamping the collar up rigidly against the end thereof and holding the collar in place. The collar 10*, together with the head in this form of the invention, is constructed exactly the same as that previously described. In Fig. 8 the construction is the same as in Fig. 7, except that the collar 1O has small lugs 24 formed thereon to engage the journal, as will be understood, and the head 17 is provided with the recesses 16 and 17, in which the pawl 20 is located.

Having thus described our invention, we claim asnew and desire to secure by Letters 1. In a hub;attaching device, the combination of a collar having an annular flange formed thereon, and the flange being ratcheted, means for holding the collar in place,

a head in connection with said means and tion adaptedto receive a wrench, and a pawl carried by the head and havinga portion projected" beyond the said outer portion of the head, the pawl working with the ratcheted flange of the collar.

2. In a hub-attaching device, the combination of a collar, and means for holding the collar in position, such means comprising a head mounted to turn on the collar and having an angular portion to be engaged by a wrench, and a pawl carried in the head and working with the collar to hold the head, the pawl having a portion projected above the angular portion of the head to be engaged by the wrench, whereby to throw the pawl as the.

wrench is applied.

3. In a hub-attaching device, the combination of a collar having a ratcheted flange, and means for holding the collar in place, such means comprising a head turning on the collar and having an angular portion to be engaged by a wrench and a pawl mounted in the head and working with the ratcheted flange of the collar, the pawl having a portion projected from the angular portion of the head, whereby as the wrench is engaged with such angular portion of the head the pawl is actuated to disengage the ratchetedfiange of the collar.

4. In a hub-attaching device, the combina= tion of a collar and means for holding the collar in place, such means comprising a spindle extended centrally through the collar, a

head attached rigidly to the spindle and having an angular portion to be engaged by a wrench, and a pawlcarried by the head and engaging the collar to hold the head and flange, a portion of the pawl being projected from the angular portion of the head to be engaged by the wrench-whereby to operate the pawl.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN A. VVEITZEL. ULYSSES G. SMITH.

Witnesses:

W. E. MEoK, FRANK MAoInL. 

